The Saddest Anniversary

Well, Catholic Americans, today is a day that ought to live on in an infamy far greater than December 7 ever could. Today is the day when it was proved that the pen may indeed be mightier than the proverbial sword, because it was on this day, in 1973, that seven Supreme Court justices gave their approval in the case of Roe vs. Wade to declare that abortion was a fundamental right under the United States Constitution, and that, therefore, it could not be banned. It was that simple act, which was not itself an act of violence, that has led to the deaths of some 45 million innocent children, who never made it so far as their first breath.

As a result, this day has become the rallying point for those in the United States who recognize this grave injustice, and who are gathered in our nation's capital today to make their voices heard and to demand justice from the government that has allowed this all to happen.



In my humble opinion, the mere facts that this court decision past (let alone that is passed with a 7-2 majority), and that there were people then who fought voraciously to ensure that it did, and that there are more people today who will fight sometimes more voraciously to ensure that it is not overturned, and that the American people have just inaugurated a new president, who has declared that it is a priority of his administration to guarantee that the so-called "right" to abortion is in no way hindered with this nation's borders, are all indicators of a culture whose moral compass was accidentally dropped overboard into the vast sea of iniquity long ago. That, to me, is the real problem.

It would not be nearly so grave a situation if there were a so-called "right" to abortion that no one ever used. It would not be so terrible for us as a people if abortion were completely legal, but no abortions occurred. The truly sad fact is that abortion, legal or illegal, continues to happen, and to the tune of about one million per year. One-third of the people whom I should know and who should be roughly my age have fallen under the sword of an aggressor whom they never knew, and should never have had to fear. One-third of the young Americans never lived to see their own birth. If it were not the case that abortion were seen as a solution to a problem, then this court decision would not matter. However, the fact of the matter, to be elaborated in at least one succeeding blog post, is that the problems are there to make pregnancy a difficult and harrowing experience, and there are enough people in this country with loud enough voices to convince women in "problem pregnancies" that abortion is a way out. And that is the real injustice...